WEFA Principal John Merrickhas split his professional career between academia and Wall Street and brings eleven years of experience in research, product management and proprietary trading in securities and derivative markets. His academic research program focuses on securities and commodities market frictions, asset and derivative contract valuation, and market manipulation.

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Corporate Finance

Causal Inferences about Damages: Design Matters

Do financial intermediaries interact with customers who are attempting to execute a strategy to manipulate a market? If so, these financial intermediaries may share part of the blame for any damages caused. In such a case, a methodology to estimate the how much of total damages should be attributed to these intermediaries needs to be designed.